Emergency, Safety & VHF Reference

Modified on Tue, 28 Jul at 11:09 PM

At the bottom of the sidebar sits Quick Access — Emergency, Safety and VHF. Three screens that have to work when there is no time to look things up, and no connection to look them up with.

Emergency

The Emergency screen puts on one page what someone needs to make a distress call:

Last known position — the coordinates from your most recent log entry, in a form you can read out
Mayday procedure — the standard call format with the fields to fill in while transmitting
Pan-Pan procedure — the urgent, non-distress equivalent
Crew on board — everyone assigned to the active passage, with blood type and emergency contact

⚠ The position is your last log entry, not a live GPS fix. If your last entry is six hours old, so is the position on this screen. That is the argument for logging at regular watch intervals — on the day it matters, the value there is only as good as your logging routine.

The blood types and emergency contacts come from the crew records, so they are only on the screen if someone entered them beforehand — see Managing your crew.

Safety

The Safety entry opens the five checklists — departure, arrival, storm, night watch and crew briefing — which you can adapt to your own boat. They are described in Safety checklists.

VHF reference

A channel guide for maritime VHF: international calling and distress channels, port operations, marina frequencies and weather broadcasts. It is stored in the app, so it is there in an anchorage without coverage — which is where a printed card usually turns out to be below deck.

Worth knowing before you need it

All three screens read data that is already on the device, so they work without a connection. What they cannot do is invent it: the position comes from your entries, the crew details from your crew list. Ten minutes of preparation in harbour decides what these screens are worth at sea.

Last updated: 28 July 2026